On Tue, 06 Dec 2016, James McCoy wrote: > > When I work on Kali packages, I almost always get a lintian error because > > lintian doesn't know of the suite > > Can't that particular issue be fixed with vendor information provided > for lintian? That's already done for Ubuntu.
Probably. But this will not work when I build a Kali source package on my Debian system. It will only help when I build in a Kali chroot, no? > > I want to be informed of the errors but I don't > > want the whole build process to be stopped... I want "gbp buildpackage" to > > create my tag and I want debuild to sign my package. > > While I understand that the change is unexpected, wouldn't it be better > to resolve the errors "globally" rather than just for your dev > environment? Certainly but I also fear it will encourage people to add undue overrides just so that the build does not fail. > > If you consider this a regression, then the default check hook should have > > some "|| true" added at the end or something like that (or you can also > > add a new option to ignore the result and have its default to true instead > > of false). > > I can't do any of the above without pulling the execution of lintian > back into debuild. The actual command-line being run isn't in debuild's > control (to the extent that we could do an equivalent of "|| true") and > all debuild knows is that dpkg-buildpackage failed. It has no idea that > it was due to the check command (lintian). Well, you pass --check-command=lintian and you pass the check-options too. While I now see that you can't pass "|| true" at the end of the command, you can pass a "--no-fail" option to lintian if lintian had such an option (it currently does not have anything like that though). So I guess we would have to open a bug against lintian and block this one by the lintian bug. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
